Children: The Future Hope of Addis Ababa

This is our ground-level support system. We deploy 5,000 trained Parental Coaches to conduct regular house-to-house visits, offering guidance, coaching, and mentoring to parents and caregivers from conception to age six.

We are overhauling Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services within health centers to better integrate ECD. This includes ensuring standardized developmental milestone and stunting assessments are performed and establishing organized referral systems.

This initiative focuses on dramatically increasing the availability of affordable, high-quality nurturing care for children between 7 months and 3 years. We are establishing 1,000 new daycare centers citywide through diverse models.

To ensure quality early learning for children aged 4 to 6 years, we are shifting the educational paradigm. This involves moving away from classical teaching methods toward a play-based, child-centered education model.

We are committed to establishing nurturing, inclusive, and accessible playgrounds in every corner of the city to foster holistic development through play. We plan to develop 12,000 new playgrounds (two per city block) and implement the highly visible "Transforming Streets for Play" project, which closes 189 roads on Sundays for guided play activities.